Road Trip- Day 3

Paper Birch tree

Its early in the morning and its freezing cold! Its august and it is only 12 degrees. Did you know the average temperature in Yellowknife is -4 degrees? Wow. I just want to cuddle inside my sleeping bag, but today is my last day in this wonderful city and I have to make the best out of it. It is just my luck for it to be raining today, the day I want to go hiking. Did you know August is the month with the most precipitation, there is an average of 82 mm and the average temperature is 14 degrees. Anyways I put on my huge rain boots and rain jacket, pack a couple of granola bars and bottles of water and set out for my hike. The land forms are so beautiful, the most common rock type is sedimentary rock, and North America is known as the bedrock heart of the continent. The terrains look so green and clean while the soil is laced with permafrost, and it isshallow, course, soft, damp and high in acid content. The vegetation is beautiful, paper birch, willows and trembling aspen trees; as well as blueberries, labrador tea and sedges plants. The plants are covered with due and they all have different textures. The air smells so clean! There are many animals as well like the bald eagle, beavers, pacific loons, black bears and more. Did you know that the taiga shield ecozone has 50 species of mammals? After my good hike my new friends cooked me some fish, caribou and a drink made from the plants, it was very unique. Today my main plan was to visit one of the world wonders, the waterfalls near kakisa lake. I wanted to see the northern lights but kakisa lake was pretty far from where I was staying. I decided that the only way I could get there was by snow mobile. Driving in a snowmobile was so fun, a lot of adrenaline and the northern lights were so beautiful! Yellowknife was such a beautiful city.